On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Oct 16, 7:33 pm, Burcin Erocal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 16 Oct 2008 20:21:55 +0200 >> >> Hi Martin, >> >> > Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Some of my students complain that the vmware image of sage seems to >> > > use english keyboard. Is there a way to configure this? >> > >> > > (I do not own a windows machine, so I cannot try it...) >> >> The VMware image does run on any platform where there is a VMWare >> player, i.e. Linux and OSX would be a possible test bed for you in >> case you want to play with the VMWare image. >> >> > As far as I know the vmware image runs ubuntu, so one can just follow >> > the instructions on the ubuntu community website: >> > >> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf >> > (scroll down for Keyboard configuration - console) >> >> Exactly. This has come up before and does solve the problem. > > OK, I tried it on three windows boxes - but it does not work. I did > > manage > > sudo su > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data > > select quertz, german > > exit, reboot. > > Curiously, after reboot, the keyboard is still english, but > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data > > thinks we have a german keyboard... > > UPDATE: > > using > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup works.
What *precisely* works? Where would be the most useful place to add this information? In the README file that comes in the sage vmware zip? Thanks! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
